Having many Visual Studio extensions and tool windows on visual studio will load very slow on start. With visual studio 2017 IDE we have an option to "Manage Visual Studio Performance" which can help you to optimize your IDE start-up time and control the behaviour of slow extensions and tool windows.

Visual Studio Team Explorer 2017 (VSTE) is a rich, standalone client to interact with Team Foundation Server(TFS), Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Local Git Repositories. It is free for any user and the installation only includes Team Explorer so you can access repositories without Visual Studio IDE.

With Visual Studio 2017 IDE, Microsoft has re-designed the start page that prioritizes the actions that help us to get code faster and start working instantly using Open and Create Facilities. Visual Studio 2017 Start Page has Recent, Open, Create new project and developer news sections.

In this article we will see the new Installation Experience with Visual Studio 2017 which has new user experience by having Work loads, Individual components and Language Packs. Also with the new installer window we can report/provide our feedback to Microsoft.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2017 RC on November 16,2016. This new visual stuido release includes major feature invnovations and improvements. Here we will see how to download and install visual studio 2017 RC version.

Microsoft has released codeformatter on GitHub. This tool uses Roslyn which can be used to format C# project code automatically as per guidelines. With the source code format we will have better readability and maintainability of a code.

.NET Core RunTime(CoreCLR) as an open source project on GitHub..NET Core is part of ASP.NET 5 and subset of .NET framework which includes includes RyuJIT, the .NET GC, native interop and many other .NET runtime components.